In the wee hours of Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Dodgers won an 11-inning epic in Toronto, beating the Blue Jays 5-4 in Game 7 to win the 2025 World Series.

It was, without a doubt, one of the greatest baseball games ever played. Of course, there’s well over 100 years of games to go through for those rankings. But whatever the list is, this has to be on the short list.

And while he wasn’t named MVP of the series, Red Sox legend Mookie Betts put his stamp on the Game 7 win, turning the series-clinching double play for the final out of the game, as well as scoring a run while drawing 2 walks on the night.

It was a team win, and one of the Dodgers quintessential team players helped take home their second consecutive Commissioner’s Trophy - the first repeat champion in 25 years. While Betts had his worst regular season as a pro at the plate, he successfully changed positions to shortstop when called upon to do so by Los Angeles. Seeing him turn the game-winning double play was the capper to a season where Betts battled through so much personal adversity.

Since being traded to the Dodgers ahead of the 2020 season, Betts has now won three World Series rings while wearing Dodger blue. He now has four on the career, with his first coming as the AL MVP leader of the 2018 Red Sox.

Along with pitcher David Price, Betts was traded to the Dodgers after the 2019 season from Boston in exchange for outfielder Alex Verdugo, catcher Connor Wong, and infielder Jeter Downs. Only Wong remains a member of the Red Sox organization.

Instead of continuing his future Hall of Fame career with the organization that drafted him back in 2011, Betts is now continuing to forge an indelible legacy as one of the most popular Dodgers of the modern era.

But we’ll have plenty of time the rest of the 33-year-old’s career to complain about this unforgivable.

For now, here’s what Betts had to say after the win on the FOX postgame show:

On his team’s mentality heading into Game 7:

“Honestly, we were all in a really great head space. I mean, coming into the clubhouse, you wouldn't even know what it was Game 7. Like, everybody was just chilling, going about our business, taking care of what we need to take care of. And we know when the game starts, we're all gonna lock in. But we knew that they were as well. We knew it was gonna be a tough game. But, you know, that's the beauty of our team. Like, it doesn't really matter. We don't care about tough games. We know how to win tough games. We know how to win blowouts. We just know how to win. We did today.”

On his team’s big defensive plays:

“...It was just a collection of guys that - we knew we just had to take care of our jobs, and defense is part of our jobs, and we know we can hit and whatnot, but defense is one of those things that kind of flies under the radar, and we showed it tonight.”

On an iconic night for Miguel Rojas:

“I mean, I was standing on the top step. And, I mean no shade to Miggy Rojas, but nobody's really expecting a homer with 2 outs from Miggy Rojas, and he did it. And it was one of those things where we believed in him, but we didn't know about a homer, right? And he hits his homer like that. I mean, it's just fitting, because - if you're around a group of guys, you know who the ‘mic guy’ is, the guy that's on the mic to get everybody going. He's our ‘mic guy.’ And for him to just come in big, he's like our glue man. He came through it for us the last two games.”

On the game-clinching double play:

"Honestly, nobody knows, because they weren't in my head, but I was so nervous. I've never been in that situation. And I was so nervous, and I literally, as he was pitching the ball, I was talking to myself, saying, 'Be nasty, Mook. Just make a play. Be nasty. Be nasty. Be nasty.' "And like you said, the ball found me. And I just kind of played ... I don't know what happened, but all the work in the backfields, it all came to fruition this season."

And in case you were wondering…

The Dodgers are the favorites to win it all again in 2026, with +370 odds to win their third consecutive World Series next season.

Tom Carroll is a contributor for Roundtable, with boots-on-the-ground coverage of all things Boston sports. He's a senior digital content producer for WEEI.com, and a native of Lincoln, RI.